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Literature
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Reflections on writing about the lives of Beckett, Beauvoir
Nov 11, 2019 4:16 PM - Noted biographer Deirdre Bair reflects on writing about the lives of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir in 'Parisian Lives'
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'My Penguin Year' works best as companion to nature series
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Fans and newcomers alike will enjoy 'Twisted Twenty-Six'
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Author makes readers care about boys about to become men
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Author endeavors to show how animals relate to humans
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Poet Kevin Coval will give reading at OaktonNov 10, 2019 4:31 PM - Northbrook native and Glenbrook North High School alumnus Kevin Coval will read selections from his collection of poetry 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Oakton Community College's Student Center (Room 1530), 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.
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Book review: Mitch Albom's 'Finding Chika' is a bittersweet memoir about family
Nov 10, 2019 7:29 AM - Mitch Albom, the author of "Tuesdays With Morrie," has a new memoir in which he again shares lessons learned from someone dear to him who dies. This time, though, instead of an old professor, his teacher is a young girl from the orphanage he runs in Haiti. -
Book review: Lucy Ellmann's 'Ducks, Newburyport' is brilliant, addictive
Nov 9, 2019 7:26 AM - Lucy Ellmann's "Ducks, Newburyport," which is shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is brilliant and addictive. It's a nearly 1,000-page book that's mostly one sentence. The main character is an unnamed woman who is a mom, cancer survivor, wife and baker, who's trying to hold it together after her family is hit with numerous challenges. -
Book by anonymous Trump official portrays a presidency on the brink
Nov 8, 2019 7:51 AM - In "A Warning" by Anonymous, a writer described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration" paints a chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation he was elected to lead.
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Glenbard Parent Series to host author of 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter' Nov. 20
Nov 9, 2019 5:50 PM - On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Glenbard Parent Series Navigating Healthy Families will host an author event with Erika Sánchez, author of "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter."
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